Abstract:
Introduction: Health professionals are immensely essential in any health care delivery
system especially to meet the health related millennium development goals and Growth and
Transformation Plans .Although work motivation is essential and very crucial for successful
health service delivery there was no study that documented the motivation of health
professionals in the study area.
Objective: the purpose of this study was to assess the level of job motivation and
associated factors among health professionals in government health service delivery
institutions in South Gondar Adminstrative Zone Northwest, Ethiopia
Methods: Institution based cross sectional study supplemented with qualitative study was
used among 406 health professionals from April to May 2014.Simple randm sampling
technique was used to select the study participants.
For in-depth interviews, seven health professionals were purposively selected. After
screening for inclusion criteria.Data was collected using pretested and structured selfadministered
questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize variables like
socio-demographics. Both Bivariate and multi variable logistic regression model were used
to identify factors predicting job motivation.The result were presented using odds ratio with
95% confidence interval . P-value less than 0.05 were taken as stastically significant.
Results; The overall response rate was about 96.2%.The proportion of motivated health
professional was 47.8%. Best interdisciplinary collaboration between different professionals
(AOR 95% CI: 2.002 [1.242-3.225]) and interest of professionals/Pride/ to work (AOR 95%
CI: 2.102(1.351—3.271) were significantly associated factors of job motivation.
Conclusion and Recommendation: Motivation of health professionals working in South
Gondar Zone was found to be low. Therefore South Gondar Zone and the respective
woredas should look into ways of enhancing motivation status of health professionals by
supporting team work, participation in professional associations and using locally
appropriate motivation strategies such as informal work groups to develop common
language and preparing health institutions to be attractive for health professionals improve
interest of professionals to work.
